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#1816 | |
Keepin it Real
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Oklahoma
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I only get upset at the people who keep every fish they catch no matter the size. |
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#1817 |
MVP
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Jabip
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I really can't stand people who have a total disregard for the effect they have on the planet, the ecosystem or other people. I'm no tree hugger but goddamn people have to understand their behavior has consequences.
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#1818 | |
Sleeping on the blacktop
Join Date: Nov 2013
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I started to type out something similar but then backed out hoping you had beat me to it. ![]() I really don't want to be that guy, but it saddens me evey time some redneck posts photos carving up a 75lb flathead he caught on a limb line on Facebook. Last edited by George Liquor; 03-01-2017 at 04:15 PM.. |
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#1819 | |
pie is never free
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: the drivers seat
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I'm not aware of any trout fishing near me, I'm talking bass and catfish Honestly, I throw back 80% of what I catch, but there are those days when I'm getting some nice ones and start dreaming about a fish fry... in the past that has included 30 or so pound blues and flatheads |
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#1820 | |
Hey Loochy, I'm hooome!
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: PooPooKaKaPeePeeShire
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I do know that there was a time when bass populations suffered from overfishing before catch and release became so popular. Whenever I go, I always say that I'll bring home a few for dinner and I never do. It's a pain in the ass to carry them around on a stringer all day, it's a pain in the ass to clean them, and I don't really think they taste all that good anyway. |
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#1821 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Jabip
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#1822 | |
Hey Loochy, I'm hooome!
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: PooPooKaKaPeePeeShire
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I do, however, enjoy ocean fare. The best fish I've ever had was some yellowfin that I caught in Hawaii and ate a couple of hours later. |
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#1823 |
MVP
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Jabip
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I never could get into eating fish at restaurants, especially fried fish, breaded in some factory and bagged for 6 months. No thanks, I'll just have a greasy burger if I'm going to do something like that.
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#1824 |
Hey Loochy, I'm hooome!
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: PooPooKaKaPeePeeShire
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What about walleye? On my last trip I picked off a few that had washed out from the dam being open. I told some fellow fishermen I ran into that I threw them back. They thought I was nuts and they said walleye were delicious.
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#1825 | |
Shit
Join Date: Jun 2008
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But we also are active in keeping them a habitat. It grows every year, my fil had even had divers go down to place stuff |
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#1826 |
MVP
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Jabip
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I really like walleye, but if you are partial to only ocean fare you probably won't.
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#1827 |
Wearing ballistic dog goggles.
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: In the box.
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You're killin me loochy.
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#1828 | |
Wearing ballistic dog goggles.
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: In the box.
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Once properly cleaned flathead cat is the whitest, flakiest fish meat I've ever had. The thing about them though is you don't waste your time with anything smaller than about 20 lbs. They have pockets of red meat in their flesh that you want to clean out for the same reason I trim the fat off of channel fillets, because that's where the nasty taste is, and by the time you've trimmed away the nasty from a fish that only weighed, say, 15 lbs to begin with you'll be left with maybe uh pound of good fish meat. Had to learn that one the hard way. |
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#1829 |
MVP
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Jabip
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See that to me is responsible. But, I know absolutely nothing about trout or how their spawning cycles go or where and when is best to catch em or anything. To me, if you eat everything you keep, don't kill fish you won't use and try to be responsible in how you go about harvesting from different areas, you're gold.
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#1830 |
Keep doubting J MFing Houston
Join Date: May 2007
Location: ft.lauderdale
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South Florida fishing is amazing.
You guys have seen my pics. That said we have limits on how many fish you can eat because of high mercury content. It's something like 2 fish a week. And maybe it's just me, but if you tell me I can only eat 2 fish a week, I'm not eating any of them. This is fresh water, of course. Exact opposite for our lake in TN. It is so over populated with bass that if we catch one under a pound, Tennessee wildlife told us to either eat it or kill it because they can't get any bigger with the numbers that are in there. I haven't chimed in here in a while because I am on a serious drought in the SF lake. I don't know WTF is going on. I know I go through this every year, but damn. Things have been slow. I don't even see the peacock running around? Anybody else fish down here? |
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